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Description: For almost 1000 years in Kiev there is one of the three most important monasteries of the so-called "laurels", spiritual "chakras" of provislavia in Russia. For centuries the monastery was famous for its skilled craftsmen. Also equipped workshops were almost the same as Kreemlevsky one in Moscow. Here was everything to create great icons, the rarest and most expensive materials. Gold leaf and melted gold, rare pigments to create beautiful colors. This icon of the Mother of God of Kiev demonstrates, aristocratic and at the same time a rich palette of colors, pure colors on a thick sheet of gold leaf background.

The image is written in Neo Byzantine style, which some refer to call as "Russian Modern".

The Mother of God is - the ruling Empress here. The entire image and background shines with the real thick sheet of gold leaf 24 carats. On the fields of the icon there is stylized Byzantine engraving with cold enamel.

Face painting or Okhrenie: faces are written in a multitude of transparent layers and that's why they are voluminous and lightly transparent. The dressings on the clothes are carefully made with melted gold.

Provenance: The icon belonged to a man from the elite of the Empire. StockholmAlso there is the customer's promissory note, on which we can accurately know the time of painting and the price of the order. There are also new details, albeit indirect ones helping to understand the whole path of the icon from this day to her "birth" on the table master.

Ideal state of preservation.

Luxury, status icon.

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